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I.--OFFENCES.

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Police Magistrates during 1900.

Total Number of Offences

Offences against the

Person.

Offences against

Gambling.

Property (other than Other Offences.

Prædial Larceny).

reported.

Саѕев .......14,041

1,169

392

Persons......16,696

1,536

1,550

,6,210

6.620

6,306

6,978

TABLE showing the Number of Offences reported to the Marine Magistrate during 1900.

Total Number of Offences reported.

Offences against the Person.

Offences against

Refusal of Duty.

Property (other than Predial Larceny).

Other Offences.

Persons

Cases

144

2

42

~

75

17

67

23

* Include both Offences against rights of Property and Injuries to the Subjects of Property,

IL-APPREHENSIONS AND SUMMONSES.

TABLE showing the Number of Persons brought before the Police Magistrates' Court by Arrest Warrants or Summonses for Offences, and how their Cases were disposed of

in the Police Magistrates' Court.

Number Discharged

for want of Prosecution by the Party complaining or for want of Evidence.

Number of Cases Dismissed

the Merits.

:

Number of Persons Summarily Convicted.

Number of Persons Committed

for Trial

in the

Superior Courts.

Offences against the Person,...

20

150

73

43

1,507

Gambling,

Offences against Property • (other than Prædial Lar- ceny),

Offences against Masters and Servante Acts, including Acts relating to Indentured Conlius,

Other Offences,

Total Number of PersoUS Summoned or Apprehended,...

*. Bec font-nota (❤) to Table I.

:

120

1000

2

19

225

4,244

...

10

140

425

5,827

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